Faculty of Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering Faculty of Timișoara

Traian Lalescu 2

Timișoara 300223 România

+40 (0) 256 404 000

+40 (0) 256 404 010

The Faculty of Civil Engineering in Timişoara was established as the third
faculty of the Polytechnic School, on November 11th
1941. The Polytechnic School was founded on the same date, November 11th,
but 21 years before, shortly after the union of the Romanian territories
following World War I, in order to answer the requirements of Banat County for
engineering education.

Today, Politehnica University Timişoara is a university of advanced research
and education (first category status obtained at the national evaluation in
2011), and possesses an educational and research infrastructure comparable with
the most prestigious European universities.The study programs are organized
within the “Bologna” paradigm and comprise all the three degrees: Bachelor,
Master and Doctorate.

During its 75 years of existence, the Faculty of Civil Engineering in
Timisoara has got national and international recognition, and through the
reputation of its staff and professional reliability of over 18000 graduates,
has built its tradition in the frontline of academic, scientific and
professional development in the field.

The educational offer is adapted to both national and international standards
for three study domains, which are closely related: Civil Engineering, Building
Services Engineering and Geodetic Engineering. This offer, which includes an
Erasmus Mundus Master program in cooperation with five top level European
universities, and a double Diploma agreement with one of the most prestigious
universities of Germany, highlights the international reputation of excellence
of our faculty.

The research topics are adapted to the actual trends in the field, which is
demonstrated by the important number of national and international research
projects in which the faculty is involved, together with partners from important
universities, research centers or industrial companies. All these, corroborated
with the large number of young professors habilitated to lead doctoral studies,
and with the laboratories provided with modern equipment, ensure all the
conditions for a scientific research activity of highest level.

The Faculty of Civil Engineering in Timisoara is involved in the national
standardization activity, as well as in consulting activities for important
objectives. From the early 1990s, the faculty has pioneered the introduction and
promotion of European Structural Eurocodes in Romania. Today, members of the
faculty represent our country in the Working Groups and Project Teams of CEN -
Comité Européen de Normalisation, for drafting the new generation of Eurocodes.

MATERIAL RESSOURCES

The Faculty of Civil Engineering uses five buildings of Politehnica
University Timisoara, having a destination tightly related to its activity. All
buildings are provided with modern ressources for education and research. The
faculty students have at their disposal:

8 amphiteatres;

25 rooms for seminars
and didactic laboratories;

10 rooms with PC’s
equipped with calculation/design software;

7 research
laboratories affiliated to the departments.

The students benefit of free access to the Politehnica University Timisoara
Library and are accommodated in university hostels. The two university
restaurants from the campus actually function as subsidized units for the
students. The student access to the sport bases of the university is free. These
bases have fitness rooms, footbal, tennis and baschetball fields, atletism lanes
and two semi-olimpic swimming pools, one indoors and the other outdoors.

HUMAN RESSOURCES

The Civil Engineering Faculty benefits from a staff with remarkable
achievements in the field of research, design and expertise. This fact is proven
by the presence of many staff members in scientific and academic forums,
professional associations and technical committees at national and international
level.

The human resource is the essential factor in consolidating and developing
the faculty performance and its continuous professional development. Thus, the
teaching staff promotion based on performance and professional integrity
represents one of faculty major objectives.

The academic staff of the faculty gather over 90 teachers. The development of
the educational and research activity is also provided by 12 engineers and
technicians, while the administrative activity is provided by a staff of 15
persons.

THE EDUCATIONAL OFFER

The educational programs of the Civil Engineering Faculty are all accredited
and similar to the programs of the other Romanian and EU faculties in the field.
The curricula for the bachelor degree is structured in order to provide a
basic instruction valid for all the study domains and to provide sufficient
flexibility in specialty choice.

Thus, at the level of first and second year, the curricula is common for all
future specializations within the “Civil Engineering” domain. The specific
subjects which provide the training in the accredited specialties are included
in the curricula as optional and are grouped in the third and fourth year. The
curricula for the first year in “Building Services” is also identic to the
“Civil Engineering” one. The bachelor degree curricula were adapted to the new
approach, facilitating the implementation of oriented practical stages, by
reuniting all industrial companies practice in the third year.

The master degree curricula is also structured based on the idea that they
should provide continuity in the main specializing directions of the bachelor
degree, but also the training of engineers in several priority directions, given
by present day policy in constructions.

In the international spirit (part of the Timisoara education in civil
engineering), the unified European code package EN-Eurocodes was implemented and
constantly considered in the educational process, long before it became
standardized at national level as SR-ENs.

Worldwide opening is an important factor in the development and consolidation
of the faculty, which has proved a durable preoccupation in the matter, extended
on more than two decades. The best proofs are the two programs in foreign
language, i.e. the bachelor degree in German and the bachelor/master degree in
English. In the last years, more and more foreign students have been attending,
via Erasmus, the German/English programs and not only.

The specializations of Civil Engineering in English and Civil Engineering in
German were created in 1991, with the purpose of providing a modern educational
system, compatible with the one in EU countries and which could enable the
practice of the civil engineer profession in the globalized context.

From the moment it was founded, DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
– paid special interest to Civil Engineering in German specialization. In 1992,
the DAAD approval was given for a German department within the Faculty of Civil
Engineering. Members of the academic staff teaching at the specialization and
students benefited from DAAD scholarships. In 2005, after more than ten years of
cooperation, the President of the Technical University of Munich – Prof. dr. HC
ing. Wolfgang Herrmann - and the Rector of the Politehnica University Timişoara
– Prof. dr. ing. Nicolae Robu – signed, in the context of the
internationalization strategy of both universities, an addendum to the existing
agreement, concerning the double diploma offered to the students of both
universities.

The evolution and progress of the Civil Engineering in English study program
is tightly related (by its very nature) to international cooperation and
university exchanges. A first step was an individual initiative - meeting of the
Dean of the Civil Engineering Faculty with Mr. John Scott, Bsc(Hons) CEng
MIstructE MCIOB, from Edinburgh, U.K in 1992 - followed by some Romanian
students mobility from Timisoara to Edinburgh, partly sponsored by the UK
Institution of Structural Engineers, Scottish Branch. The relations evolved
later in 1998, by means of the creation of the Scottish-Romanian University
Exchange (SRUE), as a non-profit organization providing technical documentation
and sponsoring student/staff exchanges.

Within the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Timisoara, besides the Master
Program in English entitled „Advanced Design of Steel and Composite Structures”,
another international and inter-disciplinary master is functioning (in Erasmus
Mundus). Entitled „Sustainable Constructions under Natural Hazards and
Catastrophic Events - SUSCOS”, it started based on an international
collaboration with five famous European universities: University of Liege –
Belgium, The University of Naples Federico II – Italy, Czech Technical
University in Prague – Czech Republic, The University of Coimbra – Portugal, and
Luleå University of Technology - Sweden.

The degree awarded is a Master Degree, provided as a multiple diploma.

Until 2016, marking the 75th anniversary of the Faculty, a number of 18280
specialists have graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering in Timişoara.

Study Programs - Bachelor degree

Domain

Study Program

Description

Civil engineering

Civil, Industrial and Agricultural Constructions

The programs provide the adequate skills for engineers in order to control
the design, construction, rehabilitation, exploitation and maintenance of new
and existing buildings of all types, by using classic and modern building
materials. The programs in English and German benefit of special grants for
studies in Great Britain and Germany.

Civil Engineering in English

Civil Engineering in German

Railways, Roads and Bridges

The program provides the adequate skills for engineers in order to control
the design, construction, rehabilitation, exploitation and maintenance of
transport infrastructures.

Hydrotechnical Developments and Constructions

The programs provide the adequate skills for engineers in order to control
the design, construction, rehabilitation, exploitation and maintenance of
various elements regarding the water related infrastructure.

Sanitary Engineering and Environment Protection

The program provides the adequate skills for engineers in order to develop
efficient solutions in the fundamental urban development issue of design,
construction, rehabilitation, exploitation and maintenance of water supply and
sewerage engineering arrangements.

Geodetic Engineering

Land Measurement and Cadastre

The program provides the adequate skills for engineers in order to manage
the design, realization and exploitation of works in the field of terrestrial
measurements with different destinations (geodetic engineering works and
surveying, cadastre, town planning, etc.).

Building Services Engineering

Building Services

The program provides the adequate skills for engineers in order
to develop efficient solutions to provide the comfort in the built environment
(heating, ventilation, water supply, gas supply, electrical systems).

Study Programs – Master degree

The focus is to provide students with the engineering ability and know-how
to design and construct structures in a balanced approach between economic,
environmental and social aspects. A strong emphasis is given to the reduction
of carbon footprint, the energy efficiency of buildings considering a
life-cycle approach and the integration in the structural systems of renewable
energies and innovative technologies.

Advanced Design of Steel and Composite Structures (in
English)

The focus of is to provide students with the engineering ability to design
and construct safe steel, and composite steel-concrete structures, including
environmental aspects. The program continues the bachelor studies in civil
engineering through topics such as advanced analysis and design methods, new
structural materials, robustness of structures, fire design.

Construction Rehabilitation

The social and economic impact of the durability of constructions is
obvious, since a lot of resources are still used for rehabilitation and
maintenance of existing structures, which should respond to new quality
criteria, new design codes and actions. The program aims to qualify the
bachelor graduates to design/ re-design new/ existing structures, and to take
part, as specialists, at construction, repair and rehabilitation works.

Transport Infrastructures

The program is aimed at Bachelor graduates who wish to reach superior
professional skills in specific activities concerning transport system design,
development of transport networks, rehabilitation of roads, railways and
bridges, design of airports and maintenance on the transport infrastructure.

Optimization of Hydrotechnical Systems

The program is aimed to continue the Bachelor program Hydrotechnical
Developments and Constructions, and to expand the educational area in the
field. Covering the hydraulic aspects of the complex phenomena, studies
involving special hydraulics, hydro-technical mathematical modelling or flow
analyses are developed, using special purpose software.

Optimization of the Exploitation of SanitaryEngineering and Environment Protection Systems

The program provides specific knowledge of the sanitary urban
infrastructure, providing in-depth studies of issues regarding water supply
and sewage efficient systems, water sources protection, used water cleaning
and environmental health protection. Course topics are related to biotechnical
methods for fresh and used water treatment or to rehabilitation and
refurbishment of water supply and sewerage systems.

Sustanaible Development - Energy Audits and FireSafety of Buildings

The energy consumption as well as the fire vulnerability of buildings
should be decreased, in order to create a sustainable built environment. The
buildings should respond to new demands regarding these criteria and
consequently should be properly designed or rehabilitated for energy saving
and fire safety. The program provides specific knowledge to design and
re-design the new and existing buildings, considering these aspects.

Geodetic Engineering

Cadastre and Evaluation of Immovables

The program aims to continue the Bachelor program Land Measurements and
Cadastre and to expand the educational area on issues of real estate
evaluation that generates additional skills for the graduates. The graduates
should be able to find technical and technological solutions for surveying and
geodetic works with different destinations, performed under various
conditions.

Building Services Engineering

Optimization and Upgrading of Building Services

The program is aimed to continue the Bachelor program Building Services,
and expand the educational area in the field. The program is focused to ensure
the knowledge for the optimization of the specific equipment and building
services in order to improve the comfort and the energy efficiency, taking
into account the protection of the environment.

The educational offer of the Faculty includes also doctoral studies, in the
domains of Civil Engineering, Building Services Engineering and Geodetic
Engineering. Within the faculty, there are 22 PhD supervisers. Among these, in
the last 3 years, 10 young professors have defended their habilitation thesis.